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Arcana (Abigail Storm)
Arcana
- Black Mage: Abigail is able to use offensive magic, and she is the child of a Master Mage and the Queen of the Netherworld.
Archer II (Connor King)
Archer II
- Critical Hit Class: All of Connor's attacks with bow and arrow has the highest allowed chance to make critical hits.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With the original Archer, his mentor. Perhaps in part due to the legacy he upholds, Connor has started sowing the seeds for friendship with Fastforward, Hologram and Corona, who were originally active as super villains before Connor was even born.
- Legacy Character: The second Archer, trained by the retired Iron Age hero. By extension of the original Archer's past as Arrow III, Connor is also connected to the Bowman legacy.
- Pinned to the Wall: One of Connor's favourite tactics for dealing with fleeing foes.
- Rain of Arrows: Can create such an effect with the right arrows.
- Shout-Out: The name Connor King comes from Connor Hawke and changing the last name Queen to King.
- Status Effects: Some of Connor's trick arrows is able to create effects such as nausea, blindness, tripping, paralyzation, stunning, weakening the target's saving throws or just catching them.
- The Straight and Arrow Path: While Connor is theoretically skilled with any ranged weapon, he prefers using a bow and arrows.
Argonaut (Yves Zermeño)
Argonaut (Yves Zermeño)
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The rudimentary artificial intelligence in her Powered Armor doesn't always agree with her on the best course of action.
- The Atoner: During her time as an Omegadrone, she slaughtered countless innocents across thousands of worlds on behalf of her master, Omega.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Most of her race suffered Death by Origin Story. She endured Unwilling Roboticization. And then she was forced to inflict the same fates on countless others.
- The Fettered: She has a husband, and she has formally adopted his children from his previous marriage.
- Fish out of Temporal Water: She grew up as a member of a Higher-Tech Species, so while she hasn't technically been temporally displaced, she is effectively from The Future.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: She's a government agent, but her armor is still recognizable as an Omegadrone.
- Immortality: Specifically, The Ageless. (She does age, just very slowly, too slowly for it to matter in game terms.)
- Killer Robot: As a former Omegadrone, she used to be a Killer Cyborg.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Omega" and his hordes of "Omegadrones."
- Older Than They Look: She looks 30, but she's in her mid-40s.
- Powered Armor: With Super-Strength, Super-Toughness, Rocket Boots, and built-in Night-Vision Goggles.
- Secret Identity: The fact that she's the one piloting the Powered Armor, and that she's a Human Alien, is privileged information, unknown to the general public.
- Shield Bash: She prefers using her shield, but that shield can also deploy a Retractable Hot Blade, which can fire Sword Beams of Void Energy.
- The Unpronounceable: Her birth name is "Yvejskrujanharbh'aar."
Arrowhawk (John Fraser)
Arrowhawk (John Fraser)
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: Arrowhawk can't fly, but he is death from above.
- Chest Insignia: Arrowhawk's chest is emblazoned with a stylized logo of a white hawk in flight.
- Cool Bike: Arrowhawk rides a 1920s American Indian motorcycle, allowing him to fire while steering with his knees without the engine cutting out.
- Crazy-Prepared: Arrowhawk's arsenal of Trick Arrows includes fire extinguisher arrows.
- Death by Origin Story: Arrowhawk's vendetta against The Mafia started when they murdered his best friend in college.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Arrowhawk's Cool Mask is designed to intentionally invoke this trope. It was inspired by the mask of the original Midnight.
- Made of Iron: Arrowhawk has survived a firefight with the Powered Armor wearing supervillain Malice, the explosion of Malice's ammunition stockpile, and being impaled with Lugat Vorkolaka's sword.
Asad (Amir al-Misri)
- Animal-Themed Superbeing: Asad's motif is Panthera Awesome.
- Civvie Spandex: His "costume" is basically a t-shirt and cargo pants, made of Applied Phlebotinum.
- Energy Absorption: This is the basis for his Supertrength, Super-Toughness, and Hand Blasts.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: He plays up his image as a wealthy idiot so that people will underestimate him.
- Secret Public Identity: "I decided that hiring a P.R. firm was easier than trying to keep my identity secret."
Blue Fox / "La Renarde Bleue" (Eve Martel)
Blue Fox / "La Renarde Bleue" (Eve Martel)
- Badass Boast: The Martel Family Motto: "I stand between evil and its victims, between darkness and light, between right and wrong. I stand between those I have sworn to defend, and death."
- Badass Family: Eve is the latest scion of The Martels, a line of super-rich psychics.
- Charles Atlas Superpower: Eve has almost superhuman agility and reflexes even without her Psychic Powers.
- Psychic Powers: Blue Fox can attack a foe's mind directly, inflicting pain and even psychosomatic injury. She has Telekinesis as well as Telepathy. She can focus pure telekinetic energy into Laser Blades. She has a Spider-Sense, which makes her almost impossible to ambush without a Psychic Block Defense. She is also a "psychic bloodhound," capable of divining the location of anyone on Earth.
- Puberty Superpower: Eve's first manifested when she was 14, during a gymnastics competition.
- The Speechless: When Eve's Psychic Powers first erupted, during a gymnastics competition, the trauma of linking with every mind in the stadium rendered her permanently mute.
- Superpowerful Genetics: Psychic Powers run in the family.
Cannonade (Joe Macayle)
- Civvie Spandex: The only thing that keeps Cannonade from looking like a standard issue skinhead punk is a steel Trojan-style helmet.
- In a Single Bound: Cannonade can't fly, but he can totally jump hella high.
- Superpowerful Genetics: Joe inherited his powers from his Captain Patriotic grandfather, like his father before him. Unlike his dad, however, Joe experienced the kind of Die or Fly situation where he'd need powers.
- Super Serum: Joe inherited his powers, thanks to his grandfather's consumption of this.
- Working-Class Hero: Joe is a steelworker.
Cavalier (Kyle Steward)
- Alien Abduction: Cavalier's backstory, which put him in the Large Magellanic Cloud for close to six years before he made his way back to Earth.
- Clothes Make the Superman: The Star Knight Armor (an Expy for a Green Lantern {{Ring|Of Power), which provides Deflector Shields, Flight, Super-Strength, and Cosmic Energy Hand Blasters.
- Emerald Power: Kyle's armor glows green.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: The Incursion of the Communion started with Kyle seeing a huge chunk of his fellow Star Knights killed in the failed attempt to prevent the destruction of Lor-Van. It only got rougher from there.
- Space Pirates: Kyle fell in with some Hired Guns, "Rygar's Runabouts," after his Alien Abduction.
- Stranger in a Familiar Land: Kyle spent 5 years out in space, so he has some catching up to do.
Cobalt Templar (Corbin Hughes)
Cobalt Templar (Corbin Hughes)
- Ring of Power: The source of Corbin's powers is "The Blue Ring of The Determined Leader," an Expy for a Green Lantern Ring, which provides Combo Platter Powers:
The Crimson Tiger (Mali Benjawan)
The Crimson Tiger (Mali Benjawan)
- Combat Pragmatist: As a Badass Normal, Mali fights dirty out of necessity.
- Expy: Korra's attitude and skill, but without the elemental powers, and without being the Chosen One.